Taking painkillers during pregnancy could affect the fertility of the unborn child in later life, research suggests.
Estimates suggest that one in three pregnant women take painkillers could harm the fertility of both boys and girls.
So according to the study, the painkillers affect the production of ovaries to producing to egg cells to almost half the normal production. Given that girls produce all their eggs in the womb, so being born with a reduced number could mean early onset of menopause, which in turn is associated with negative health outcomes such as osteoporosis.
The research data covered 132,738 mother and child pairs with a follow-up period of three to 11 years.